To run 80 mph at say <1000 rpm? I doubt it. Higher in the rev range, duh, but that defeats any point of fuel economy.

I really like the Navigator concept. I know that most of it is just for show and won’t make it into production, but it’s nice to see Lincoln actually giving a shit. Hopefully they retain as much as they can for the production model (except for those wheels, I hate those wheels).

There’s no specific mention of a Crew Cab, 8' box 1/2 ton truck, just that it’s available with a 5.5, 6.5, and 8' boxes. I’m skeptical that they’ll build one, if they do though it could be a good thing. However, you can get a gas, 3/4 ton, crew cab, 8' box truck from any of the Big 3, for likely close to the same…

haters gonna hate, but I really liked the old Titan and still think it’s a fantastic looking truck. I wish the new one was more of a evolution of the old truck instead of a new truck completely*.

I found that odd as well, my guess is that they were going for more of the Halo effect and the “Look at how we’re different and innovative and game changing” message. This is basically just a standard pickup that doesn’t offer anything that the Big 3 + Toyota don’t already. If they had started with this it would have…

I’m willing to bet that it’s the same body just on a different frame, just like every other truck manufacturer. It wouldn’t make sense to make it a completely different body and style it identically. As for cab size it’s right on par with the rest of the trucks on the market. Also, in case you weren’t aware, for 2017…

I wish Lincoln had made one more generation of truck (outside of Mexico) that way I could buy one with the Ecoboost and a six speed.

I was never a huge fan of 3rd gen convertibles. That might start to change.

In theory? It better simulates a CVT transmission which has an “infinite” number of gear ratios allowing the car to stay at either peak power, peak torque, or peak efficiency as often as possible.

I take my ATVs in a different, yet terrifyingly fun flavor.

Maybe it was around the 75 hp range then, we used an R6 motor but I remember it was heavily restricted. That was 5 years ago though so it’s tough to remember.

Can 3 wheels count? Because I’ve never had more fun than this, and it makes much less than 50 hp. Although there are some modified ones that probably come pretty damn close.

Just what I was thinking, I’m not sure what kind of HP ours made, but it was heavily restricted from stock and was probably in the neighborhood of 50ish. I only drove it once but it was an absolute riot.

Awesome thanks!

Reviews like this really make me wish I lived in a place where I could actually utilize a bike like this. I would much rather have a sportier more upright bike, but because I live in the land of straight roads, it’s the cruiser life for me. Which isn’t bad, I love me a good cruiser, just would also like to be able to…

Fair enough. Apparently I’m used to some old crappy equipment. This is a good possibility then, the only issue I have left is accurately differentiating between exhaust pulses, and wind/road noise.

None of those are any good for determining gear or RPM though. That’s the main sticking point here. All of those other things are simple and easy to measure with that set of sensors, but they loose me when they claim they can read engine RPM and gear, without being directly connected to the bike itself.

Still sounds quite complicated as you have to enter all that information in, then rev your bike to redline while in idle (not good) and make sure it’s calibrated. Someone mentioned it listening for exhaust pulses, which is the best idea I’ve heard so far, but IMO would still take quite a bit of computing power,…

That’s something I didn’t think of, but that’s an awful lot of computing power in an awfully small device to be able to break apart and determine engine pulses on 4 cyl bike, with a 4-into-1 system, running through a muffler, at 13,000 rpm (which is 866.66 pulses per second), all the while being able to differentiate…

Assuming you can accurately read RPM based on sound alone, which is a big stretch IMO (how would it differentiate between say a Harley and an R1?), it would have to have a data base of every bike ever made (or at least a very very large sample) and their corresponding gear ratios in order to determine what gear you…